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UK: Pensioner spends 30 years building amazing model of Herod's Temple (photos)
DailyMail.uk ^ | 26th February 2009 | staff writer

Posted on 02/27/2009 6:59:37 AM PST by yankeedame

Pensioner spends 30 years building amazing model of Herod's Temple ...

Brick by brick, tiny figure by tiny figure, Alec Garrard has...worked for 30 years on an astonishing recreation of Herod's Temple.

...the Biblical project which now measures 20ft by 12ft and is housed in a seperate building in his garden.

His version is so impressive...top archaeologists and experts...have come to view it.


Alec Garrard standing next to the mode...

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...the Court of Prayer, enables one to see<
the extraordinary attention to detail...

This artist's impression of Herod's Temple...in 1886 by James Tissot

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...Mr Garrard, 78, has dedicated 33,000 hours to constructing his model...hand-baked and painted every clay brick and tile... even sculpted 4,000 tiny human figures to populate the courtyards.

Historical experts believe the model, which has attracted thousands of visitors from all over the globe, is the best representation in the world of what the Jewish temple actually looked like.


This image shows the Royal Porch of the temple. Mr Garrard's model has attracted
visitors from all over the world...

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Mr Garrard has sculpted 4,000 half-inch figures to populate the courtyards.
Each one takes three hours to make
Mr Garrard, from Norfolk, spent more than three years researching the temple...He then started to construct the amazing 1:100 scale model.

'Everything is made by hand. I cut plywood frames for the walls and buildings and all the clay bricks and tiles were baked in the oven then stuck together,' he said....

'I have also sculpted and painted 4,000 figures, measuring just half an inch and all wearing their correct costumes. 'Each one takes about three hours to make...

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: marshmallow
“They need to get that out of his garden shed and into a museum..”

I'm sure it will be when it's finished, or the modeler dies.

21 posted on 02/27/2009 7:37:39 AM PST by ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY ( The Constitution needs No interpreting, only APPLICATION!)
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To: yankeedame

The temple was the Disney World of its day. They said that from a distance it looked like a snow covered mountain of gold.


22 posted on 02/27/2009 7:38:13 AM PST by Moonman62 (I didn't compromise my soul to be popular. -- Jimmy Carter)
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To: SeaDragon

neat!


23 posted on 02/27/2009 7:38:34 AM PST by RikaStrom (Bitter? Who me? Nah, I'm just clinging to my guns!)
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To: yankeedame
...33,000 hours ...

Note this is the equivalent of a full-time job for 16+ years.

24 posted on 02/27/2009 7:38:51 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring
Note this is the equivalent of a full-time job for 16+ years.

About 20 hours per week for the 30 years it took to get to this stage. Great hobby for a retiree. Beautiful work.

25 posted on 02/27/2009 7:42:53 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy. FUBO!)
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To: yankeedame

12,000 hours making tiny people? Listening to Rush 3 hours a day I’m sure while doing it. Cool!


26 posted on 02/27/2009 8:50:12 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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additional:

Herod’s Temple, in all its (tiny) grandeur (graphic intensive)
Inside Catholic | March 2, 2009 | Brian Saint-Paul
Posted on 03/02/2009 1:53:08 PM PST by NYer
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2197554/posts


27 posted on 03/02/2009 4:23:22 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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28 posted on 03/02/2009 4:23:27 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: yankeedame

A great work of art.


29 posted on 03/02/2009 4:30:55 PM PST by stockpirate (A people unwilling to use violent force to preserve liberty deserve the tyrants that rule them. SP-0)
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To: yankeedame

Hopefully he doesn’t have a hot-headed neighbor (just moved in from Rome) named Titus living next door...


30 posted on 03/02/2009 4:32:24 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: yankeedame

Wow.


31 posted on 03/02/2009 4:34:14 PM PST by mysterio
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To: yankeedame

Really impressive.


32 posted on 03/02/2009 7:23:45 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain, Pro Deo et Patria)
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To: VoiceOfBruck

Link to photos:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/4837528/A-model-of-biblical-proportions-man-spends-30-years-creating-a-model-of-Herods-Temple.html


33 posted on 03/03/2009 10:48:13 AM PST by Zechariah_8_13 ("If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else." - J. G. Machen)
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To: VoiceOfBruck

Link to photos:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/4837528/A-model-of-biblical-proportions-man-spends-30-years-creating-a-model-of-Herods-Temple.html


34 posted on 03/03/2009 10:49:37 AM PST by Zechariah_8_13 ("If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else." - J. G. Machen)
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35 posted on 01/08/2021 8:30:37 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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